Tomasz R. Bielecki is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He co-authored Credit Risk: Modelling, Valuation and Hedging (2002), Credit Risk Modelling (2010) and Counterparty Risk and Funding (2014), and he currently serves as an associate editor of several journals, including Stochastics: An International Journal of Probability and Stochastic Processes. Jacek Jakubowski is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warsaw. He is the author of numerous research papers in the areas of functional analysis, probability theory, stochastic processes, stochastic analysis, and mathematical finance, and he has co-authored several books in Polish, including Introduction to Probability Theory (2000), which is now in its fourth edition. Mariusz Niewȩgłowski is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science at Warsaw University of Technology. The areas of his current research include financial mathematics with a focus on credit risk and stochastic analysis with a focus on modeling of dependence between stochastic processes.

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• 1. Introduction; Part I. Consistencies: 2. Strong Markov consistency of multivariate Markov families and processes; 3. Consistency of finite multivariate Markov chains; 4. Consistency of finite multivariate conditional Markov chains; 5. Consistency of multivariate special semimartingales; Part II. Structures: 6. Strong Markov family structures; 7. Markov chain structures; 8. Conditional Markov chain structures; 9. Special semimartingale structures Part III. Further Developments: 10. Archimedean survival processes, Markov consistency, ASP structures; 11. Generalized multivariate Hawkes processes; Part IV. Applications of Stochastic Structures: 12. Applications of stochastic structures; Appendix A. Stochastic analysis: selected concepts and results used in this book; Appendix B. Markov processes and Markov families; Appendix C. Finite Markov chains: auxiliary technical framework; Appendix D. Crash course on conditional Markov chains and on doubly stochastic Markov chains; Appendix E. Evolution systems and semigroups of linear operators; Appendix F. Martingale problem: some new results needed in this book; Appendix G. Function spaces and pseudo-differential operators; References; Notation index; Subject index.